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Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · 10h

I feel like my inability to do this has been the most insurmountable obstacle in my art journey.

I just don't know how, man, every attempt to break away from my constraints causes a crash that is agonizing.

tufted titmouse (taking tiny timeout) @titmou.se · Dec 29

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Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · 20h

P.S. God-Emperor bless the merciful ToyBox, because without it finishing this game would take me half a year. I don't enjoy skipping content, but when you have - at best - 1-2 hours a day to play a massive CRPG, you do what you gotta do

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Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · 20h

An empty world with no resources is better than seeing this

Screenshot from WH40k: Rogue Trader, of a planet scan that shows the planet yields 2 points of Plasteel resource, the cheapest and most common resource not worth wasting your extracting machines on.

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Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · 1d

Vague spoilers: do read Robin Hobb if you want dragons to kill evil old men and it not be portrayed as a bad "now we're the same" kind of thing. It's not presented as a moral act either, or as a triumph, but rather something that's necessary in the moment.

Wish I could burn our own Chalceds, y'know

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Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · 1d

One thing that made reading RainWilds difficult at times is that Hobb's theme of malicious, regressive influence spreading around the world thanks to the corruption of people in power is hitting a bit too close to home these days.

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Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · 2d

The cast is pretty strong, although I wasn't as equally invested in all POVs as I was in Liveship. Really enjoyed the slower, deliberate pace of Books 1&2 - it made the journey feel arduous and tense. But the real standouts to me were the dragons actually, loved their various characters & arcs

Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · 2d

Finally finished Blood of Dragons.

Overall I enjoyed it a bunch, but I had this persistent feeling that the whole series suffered from bad editing. Large amounts of repetitive exposition, drawn out recaps and plain old mistakes in the text (stuff like Malta calling Ephron Vestrit her father)

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Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · 2d

Ever since SHf's announcement I've harbored this far-fetched little hope that maybe R07's success in this role can eventually lead to a new Umineko adaptation.

And well, that's a bit delusional, but there are indeed new people getting introduced to his work through SHf, and that's very cool to see.

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Foo Midori -碧風羽 @foomidori.bsky.social · 3d

サイレントヒルfのファンアートを描きました

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Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · 5d

Happy birthday!!
Also hell yeah Qubeley HG

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Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · 14d

Didn't get to reply yesterday but, happy belated birthday Jon!!

Wishing to just have a day taking it easy and playing videogames is so relatable, haha

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Boo! It's Ryan! @construct.goblinmo.de · 18d

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Alex James Kane @alexjkane.bsky.social · 26d

I haven’t had a chance to watch the full thing yet, but YouTuber Tom Evans has assembled an epic 8-hour documentary featuring an impressive number of Morrowind developers, including some who weren’t involved in my 2019 oral history. Pretty wild:

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - An Oral History from the Game Developers

YouTube video by Filmdeg Miniatures

youtu.be

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Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · 27d

Yes!! I hoped for it, but never really expected that. I wonder if it's the same dev team, too, or at least some of them.

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Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · 28d

This FE announcement is everything I wanted honestly, super excited to be in Fodlan again. I guess I'd prefer it to be in the far future or on a different continent in the same world rather than the past, but this is great too.

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Catherine @einzbern.bsky.social · Sep 5

I don't think any other band has so many painfully relatable songs as Mother Mother, for me.
"Try to Change" from the same album has lived in my head ever since I'd heard it

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